Qin Min smiled and said, "It's rude to wear plain, if you want to wear plain and elegant, you have to do some work in other places, such as embroidering patterns on the skirt legs." Or bring colored jewelry, skirts can also be hung with colorful jade pendants and wraps, the head of the ornaments can not only use white, moreover, there is a funeral at home, it is not possible to go out to party, and it is not good to feast at home. When the festival is celebrated, we must also keep filial piety and not make mistakes. ”

Everyone nodded, this is a little bit of a thing. Qin Zhi asked again, "Listen to what the eldest aunt means, what you usually wear must be good, today I see this silver flower on your head, it's really beautiful, so what jewelry did you bring before?" ”

Qin Yun also took the opportunity to answer and asked, "Auntie, are you because you have new jewelry for funerals at home?" ”

Qin Min thought in his heart, the old lady suddenly didn't have it, and she was playing jewelry, how could she be in a hurry? But you can't say this, "What is prepared at home, sometimes other people's families have funerals, and silver jewelry is also needed." There are rules for people in the city to wear jewelry, wearing gold jewelry in winter and spring, and jade jewelry in summer and autumn. ”

Everyone asked the answer they wanted to hear for a long time, and they were a little anxious, and a few girls next to them also understood, and they also wanted to know! One of the girls asked, "Auntie, how many pieces of jewelry did your mother prepare for you this time?" After thinking about it, he added, "It's this time to keep filial piety, that is, you came from home, and now, how many pieces of silver jewelry have you got?" ”

Qin Min thought for a moment and said, "For silver jewelry, my mother gave me five boxes. I haven't checked the specific amount, now my hair is not long, and I am filial piety, but I don't need so much, after a while it will be the summer solstice, and when the time comes, I will change the jade jewelry, these are enough. ”

Oh...... Everyone understood, and not long after, Cherry came back with a few girls, carrying many small bags in their hands. Send them to everyone one by one. It's all dim sum. In this way, everyone is happy.

After that, everyone felt that Qin Min was extraordinary, and her words and deeds were very different, so they asked her what she did on weekdays. What learned. Everyone was surprised. There are a lot less envious eyes, and they all feel that although Qin Min is rich, but. It's also very hard, much harder than all of them. I heard that Qin Min began to manage people and shops at this age, so he looked at it even more differently.

Pearl heard these two girls say that they occasionally recognize a few words at home, and at other times they start embroidering, and Pearl also asked, and other girls in the Qin family are also like this, they are too visionary and unruly in Pearl. Next, it is a gift for other people, usually a ruler, a muslin cloth, a pair of bracelets, or a silver gilt hairpin, or a gold ring, children, each of whom is issued a silver nude weighing five cents.

Next, the subordinates packed up their things, Pearl took a stack of ledgers, and Qin Xu and Qin Chun stood beside them. Pearl first looked at the family tree, then looked at the list of students in the academy, their grades, how many went to the Egret Academy, who got the scholarship each time, and then listened to the report of the two people who were excluded from the official family. After that, I called a few children who had studied well to come over and test them.

There are a total of five people here, three of them have good talents, but they learn quickly, but they are not proficient, and the other two are not solid in terms of skills, and they are not good at dressing, but they work very hard. The pearl gave each of the five men ten taels of silver. For the children who the teacher didn't like, Pearl remembered their names, but didn't do anything about it. According to the rules of the clan, if you can't learn well, you will be sent home to farm.

Pearl asked Qin Chun to go back, divided all the children into three classes, she would find a new teacher, let Qin Chun go to the academy to study, before leaving, she also sent two bottles of essence pill and a ginseng, two American ginseng, and asked the girl to write down the recipe of the medicinal diet, and brought it back to Qin Chun, and at the same time gave him five hundred taels of silver, as his expenses in the academy for the past two years, Pearl will give another one hundred taels, these silver mother and daughter are enough to spend three or five years. The family's land can be rented out, which is also a comparative income.

After sending Qin Chun away, Pearl began to look at the account book of the sacrifice field, Pearl really wanted to call the little uncle and the Yue family and the Han family over to help, seeing them so idle, it was really annoying to watch. But think about it, if you are a housewife, you should do your duty! Then look at the cost of repairing the ancestral hall and the cost of relieving the clansmen, all of which have been relieved of those people. At first, Qin Xu could still sit and smell, but the more he went later, the more he felt that something was wrong. Because when the pearl was halfway through it, the girl handed him a piece of paper, which was written about the price of goods on their side and the cost of repair, and the craftsman told him, and signed and drew it. How much Zhuangzi produces, how much silver is distributed to each family during the New Year's holidays, how many families have been relieved, and how much silver they have given, all of them have signed and drawn a pledge, and the situation of this income and expenditure is written in more detail than I know. Qin Xu's cold sweat came down.

Pearl looked at the account book very quickly, and after reading it, he threw the account book on the table, "Fill in the account book again, write it clearly, and make up for the shortfall, otherwise, there are so many people in the clan, it is not difficult to find any one." Go ahead! ”

Qin Xu hurriedly bowed and saluted, not daring to say anything more, his face turned purple with a red face, and he left with the account book. When the people left, Pearl found Mama Liu and Mama Cheng, and said to them, "There are a few families in the clan who are not having a good time, two are because there are sick people in the family, some families are scum, there are two families, in the war, the labor of the family died, we all changed our words, the identity of the two grandmothers is enough, I can rest assured that I will talk and do things, and the matter of visiting these families will be handed over to the two grandmothers." ”

"Madame, don't worry, let's go now." Mama Liu said,

Pearl smiled and said, "I will invite two good doctors to come over and give them a good look, and everyone else in the clan is not in good health, so they can also let the doctor take a look." Although there are many sacrificial fields, the income is still not enough for the people in the clan to live well! There are still a few families in the clan, and the man is an official outside the family, and the income of the family is not much. This should be taken seriously, the future of the man, I don't have to worry about it, but whether the family is doing well or not, I will come back for a trip, and I will have to subsidize it, which is also what the master means. Then you will come with money. Just say that's what the lord means. ”

Mama Cheng said. "Madam, I see that the children in the clan study are uneven, the Qin family has always been a scholarly family, what will happen to this child who is not good at learning in the future? I'm afraid that after reading the book, I won't be happy to be a farmer, and I'm not willing to farm. ”

"I'm also thinking about it, and the girl in the family who meets a good mother. The tutor could be better. But today I also met with some people. Those women are not qualified, and the girls are also mixed. The big ones have to hold on, and the small ones can't give up. You go out. Look at these people. Other. I let people do it. ”

"Yes. Madam. ”

Early the next morning, Mama Liu and Mama Cheng went out with two carriages this time, first to the county seat fifty miles away. I bought rice, white flour, and soybean oil, and contracted the meat of the two butcher shops, divided it into several portions, and brought a lot of lard, which was also divided. He also bought a lot of sugar, glutinous rice, sesame seeds, red beans, mung beans, red dates, etc., and also bought four large frames of eggs, and also bought six ploughing oxen, two horses, and ordered a carriage with the carpenter. Then he went to the blacksmith and ordered a few railroads. I bought coal and sent it to Qin's house. Only came back after that.

Pearl immediately asked people to go nearby, invited five female masters, two to teach embroidery, two to teach poetry and book etiquette, and the other to teach cooking, and later invited two masters, who could teach the girls to be housekeepers, one of whom could also play the piano and blow the flute, Pearl let people buy a lot of pianos and strings, and Dong Xiao also bought a lot. I even bought some of the four books for women that women read the longest, and also taught men the four books and five classics. Poetry and painting. The pearl has been instructed to teach the housekeeper, not only the housekeeper, but also to know the heart and eye, so that they know what they can and cannot do. Every woman of the Qin family, as long as she is not married, must come to study. Otherwise, there would be no fifteen taels of silver for the family.

Pearl let people buy a piece of land behind the ancestral hall of the Qin family and take away the farmers there, of course, the cost of moving and buying land is also very high. Then immediately hire someone to level the land, and this piece of land is enclosed with a cement brick wall, which is two meters high, and there is barbed wire, and the difficulty of wanting to enter it is not something that people of this era can do. In the courtyard, all the peach trees, plum trees, pear trees and plum trees are planted all around, the main entrance is very large, facing the shadow wall, bypassing the shadow wall, entering is the hall, both sides are side halls and guest rooms, bypassing here, it is moving the second floor, the first floor is the place to read and practice the piano, the second floor is the study, the embroidery room and the place to stay.

In front of the small building is a large venue, where you can connect with dance, or exercise, and martial arts. The master is a person from the Pearl Zhuangzi. The east wing of the small building is not small, there is a dining room, and there is a large kitchen. The west wing room is a warehouse, which has four treasures of tea, tea sets, Go, chess, cloth, and study, and there are ink treasures and two paintings left by pearls in the study, one is an ink painting, and the other is a fine brush painting. There is a large screen embroidered with pearls in the embroidery room, embroidered with a picture of a lady, and there are also scenes on the picture, no one in the Qin family does not admire pearls, this double-sided screen embroidered with different colors is worth 10,000 gold, even they know this.

The backyard is a garden, but this is not for the ladies to flutter butterflies, all kinds of flowers and plants are planted, and in winter, there will be a greenhouse here, and the flowers here should be seen by these girls, let them draw, and then embroider. After that, the homework of these flowers and plants should also be said, and there is a place where herbs are planted, which may be used in ordinary times, and it is also necessary for them to learn medical skills and gynecology and obstetrics in the process of learning. With the flowers, you can make your own rouge, which can be taken to the city in the winter to sell for money. The money from the sale will give them scholarships for the Chinese New Year.

Pearl asked the girls to come, it was a hard requirement, and these parents have guaranteed, for food and housing, five taels of silver to the family every year, and the other five taels of school keep, and when they graduate, as a dowry to put in the girl's dowry, parents can not be greedy. In addition, after graduation, the school prepares a dowry for each student, so there is no need for the family to worry.

In this way, everyone is happy, although the older girls are gone, and there are fewer people who can work in the family, but first, they have to go to school, otherwise the clan will not give money, and secondly, they can get back the money every year, and they can also provide food and housing, study well, and there are special rewards, and they graduate smoothly and give dowry. This makes the girls who have been trained by people have different families in the future, and no one will object. Even the two daughters of the Qin Chun family went, and they graduated at eighteen anyway. (To be continued.) )